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New Social Housing Programs Seek to Make Atlanta Homes Permanently Affordable

Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a...

Yelp’s addition of a ‘Black-owned’ tag led to a slight drop in business ratings in Detroit

Yelp’s Black-owned tag was designed to help business owners like Don Studvent attract more customers. His restaurant closed in 2018 after nine years in...

Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI

DEI has a long history. Nora Carol Photography via Getty Images by Rodney Coates, Miami University Few issues in the U.S. today are as controversial as...

Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?

Model Cities staff in front of a Baltimore field office in 1971. Robert Breck Chapman Collection, Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, CC...

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

Flowers, painted benches and handmade memorials surround a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2025. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty...

Aaliyah’s turn as a vampire in the nu-metal film Queen of the Damned is an often-overlooked part of her legacy

Aaliyah as Akasha in Queen of the Damned (2002). Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo by Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University Black women’s influence on metal and connected sub-genres...

Reducing diversity, equity and inclusion to a catchphrase undermines its true purpose

More than 440 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 42 states since the 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious college admissions. J Studios/Getty...

How Racism Fueled the Eaton Fire’s Destruction in Altadena

Altadena is inherently prone to fire. But Black residents are the most vulnerable. Mario Tama/Getty Images by Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University The damage from the...

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization

The historically Black 5th Ward in Evanston, Illinois. The Chicago suburb launched the nation’s first housing-based reparations program in 2019. AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar by Sara...

Sexual identity is more fluid than previously thought, says twelve-year study

Shutterstock/Anton Vierietin by Willi Zhang, Karolinska Institutet Nearly 16% of people changed their sexual identity over a 12-year period, according to a new study I conducted...

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